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Add MS 17210
- Record Id:
- 040-001780118
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002094900
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x00011d
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 17210
- Title:
- Palimpsest, 9th century, containing Severus, Patriarch of Antioch, Treatise against John Grammatikos, chapters VIII-XX (Syriac) written over a 6th century copy of Homer's Iliad (Greek) (TM nr 61094; LDAB id 2231)
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002094900
040-001780118 - Is part of:
- Add MS 17102-17274 : Syriac Manuscripts
Add MS 17210 : Palimpsest, 9th century, containing Severus, Patriarch of Antioch, Treatise against John Grammatikos, chapters VIII-XX (Syriac)… - Contains:
- Add MS 17210, ff 1-60v : Homer, Iliad, books XII-XXIV (TLG 0012.001), beginning book XII, line 273.
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- 032-002094900[0109]/040-001780118
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 17102-17274
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0500
- End Date:
- 0599
- Date Range:
- 6th century
- Era:
- CE
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- Physical Characteristics:
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- Material: Parchment.
- Foliation: ff 60, 33 lines per column.
- Dimensions: 300 x 238 mm.
- Scribal features: Text of Homer's Iliad written in majuscule script. Comparable script to MS Med. gr. 1 (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna; probably before 527/8 or 513/14) (see Barbour, p. 1).
- Binding: Full goat leather binding.
- Custodial History:
- Add MS 17211, f 53 features a note, stating that the Syriac text was copied by Simeon, a recluse of the convent of Mar Simeon of Kartamin, for Daniel, periodeutes of the district of Amid. On Add MS 17211, f 49, lower half, is a note in a different hand, s
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased from A. Pacho, 30 October 1847.
- Publications:
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- W. Cureton, ed., Fragments of the Iliad of Homer from a Syriac Palimpsest (London, 1851).
- Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1846-1847 (London, 1864), p. 377.
- W. Wright, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in the British Museum, acquired since the year 1838, volume 2 (London 1871), pp. 548-550.
- Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, Pt. 1: Greek (London, 1881), p. 6-7 and plate 9.
- M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe (Paris, 1952), p. 27.
- R. Devreesse, Introduction à l'étude des manuscrits grecs (Paris, 1954), p. 14 (n. 10), 25.
- R. Barbour, Greek Literary Hands A.D. 400-1600 (Oxford, 1981), p. 1 (no. 1) (mentioned).
- M. J. Apthorp, 'New Evidence from the Syriac Palimpsest on the Numerus Versuum of the Iliad', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 110 (1996), pp. 103-114 (http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/ifa/zpe/downloads/1996/110pdf/110103.pdf).
- F. Schironi, Τὸ Μέγα Βιβλίον: Book-ends, End-titles, and Coronides in Papyri with Hexametric Poetry (American Studies in Papyrology 48), Durham (NC) 2010, no. 53 (pp. 198-203).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)